Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War North Africa – Rommel’s First Offensive, 24 March-15 June 1941
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
Operation Barbarossa (Dir. 21), December 18, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939
Defense Vital Now – 2-3
The International Situation – 3
Ship With 120 Americans is Lost in South Atlantic – 4
Relief ‘Deportees’ Go to Ohio Today – 4
Paris Press Calls for U.S. Mediation – 5-6 Nazis See Petain Able to Defy U.S. – 6
Strategy of West Africa – 7
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 8
Best Sellers of the Week Here and Elsewhere * – 9
* Quarterly feature to follow evolution of American reading habits. “This Above All” and “Random Harvest” are competing for the top spot in fiction this time around. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is nowhere to be seen. The collection of Churchill speeches called “Blood, Sweat and Tears” is boffo in the General category. Here are the earlier lists. They are near the end of the post in each case.
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11/18/40 Thread
8/19/40 Thread
5/13/40 Thread
2/19/40 Thread
10/23/39 Thread